Naomi Osaka: The incredible life of the 21-year-old tennis prodigy

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on January 27, 2019

The audience booed during the results announcements until Williams told the crowd to stop, and congratulated Osaka more.

“Of course I’m happy that I won a Grand Slam, I don’t think there’s anything that can take away from that, but I feel like it was so strange, I didn’t just want to think about it,” Osaka later told the BBC later that week. “I wanted to just push it to the side.”

Her victory had made Osaka the first Japanese woman to win a Grand Slam singles title and placed her in the top 10 tennis players.